Device enrollment, compliance, app deployment, Autopilot, co-management, and endpoint security baselines for Microsoft 365 environments.
Most Intune deployments stall in pilot. The profiles are configured, a handful of test devices are enrolled, and then the project loses momentum because the path from 20 test devices to 400 production endpoints isn't obvious. This practice has been through that transition enough times to know where it breaks: missing Autopilot hardware hashes, Group Policy conflicts that prevent hybrid Azure AD join, app deployment failures on devices enrolled before the compliance policy was finished.
The work here focuses on complete Intune deployments — from tenant baseline configuration through full device enrollment and compliance reporting — rather than leaving organizations with a partial rollout that the IT team has to maintain without having built it.
Windows Autopilot is Microsoft's closest thing to zero-touch deployment. In practice, getting it to work reliably in a mixed environment — some devices hybrid Azure AD joined, some cloud-only, some handed off by OEMs, some re-provisioned from legacy Active Directory — requires understanding the device identity lifecycle in a way that most Autopilot documentation skips over.
The pre-provisioned (white glove) workflow in particular has significant practical constraints around TPM attestation, network connectivity at provisioning time, and Enrollment Status Page configuration that are rarely documented accurately. Projects here are scoped to include a lab validation phase before any production device touches the Autopilot profile.
Organizations with existing SCCM (Configuration Manager) infrastructure have a co-management path to Intune that avoids a hard cutover. Co-management lets you migrate workloads — compliance policies, app deployment, Windows Updates — individually from SCCM to Intune while both systems remain active. The risk of getting this wrong is device policy conflicts: a machine receiving contradictory update schedules from both SCCM and Intune Update rings is a common failure mode.
The co-management workload migration sequence matters. This practice follows a tested order: compliance policies first (read-only in Intune), then Endpoint Protection, then Windows Update, with device app deployment migrated last once the other workloads are stable.
For most organizations, yes — modern Intune has closed most of the gaps that historically required SCCM. The exceptions are environments with complex software deployment requirements (large Win32 apps with custom detection rules), organizations using SCCM's OS deployment capabilities for bare-metal imaging, and sites where network bandwidth makes cloud-based deployment impractical. These cases are assessed specifically before recommending a full decommission.
App protection policies (MAM without enrollment) let you enforce data protection policies — encryption, copy/paste restrictions, PIN requirements — on Microsoft 365 apps on personal devices without enrolling the device in MDM. This means IT can protect corporate data in Outlook and Teams on a personal iPhone without having the ability to wipe the entire device. Most healthcare and professional services clients use this approach for BYOD.